In addition to retail lumber and plywoods sales, the Woodery offers custom millwork services for our customers.

CUSTOM PLANING: We have a 30" facing planer and a 30" cabinet planer, and can mill stock up to 7" thick. Our minimum planing charge, for milling boards from our own inventory, is $30.00 for up to 25 bf, and an additional $1.00 per board foot thereafter. This fee includes facing, planing both faces, and straight-line ripping one edge (on boards no thicker than 2 1/2"). Larger quantities are quoted per job.

Please note: While we try our best to do all millwork in a timely matter, we can not do any milling when we're busy with other customers' transactions. If you need to have milling done "while you wait", we recommend that you call ahead to make sure we're not too busy to help you. Also, we do no milling on Saturday without prior arrangement.

Planing Customers' Stock: While we are willing to plane customers' stock, we must first state some ground rules for this service:

1. The lumber to be planed must be 100% CLEAN! All boards should be completely free of dirt (small rocks) and dust (small dirt). When in doubt, use a coarse brush and an air compressor to clean the boards prior to bringing them in.
2. It is the customers' burden to guarantee the lumber is free of metal (nails, screws, bullets, etc.). We will NOT, under any circumstances, plane or sand any lumber with even the slightest evidence or suggestion of metal (including rust).
3. We can not guarantee the desired milling quality of lumber that is simply air-dried or improperly kiln-dried.

Wide Belt Sanding: We have a 36" wide belt sander, and can sand boards/glued-up panels up to 4" thick and 16' long. Our minimum sanding charge is $30.00 for up to 10 minutes, or $120.00 per hour. Belt replacement charges, where applicable, are $60.00.

It should be noted that our sander is designed to give a precise, quality finish to FLAT boards and panels. It is not, however, capable of quickly removing thickness like a planer or flattening out cupped or twisted stock. Any board or panel that needs more than 1/16" removed should be planed first, and any cupped board or panel must be flattened prior to sanding.

Also, glued-up panels should have all glue beads scraped by the customer prior to sanding. Glue-ups will always be sanded with 60 grit belts until all glue is removed, at which point a finer grit belt will be used on the finish passes.

TIPS FOR KEEPING SANDING COSTS DOWN:

• The flatter the better! When gluing up your panels, make sure to keep the plank faces as flush as possible to each other (when in doubt, use biscuits). Remember: if that center board is a little high on one side, it's probably a little low on the other. Glue-ups with planks of varying thickness will need to be faced prior to sanding or it will take FOREVER to sand them flush.
• If you have just made a "butcher block" style glue-up out of Hard Maple and you REALLY want to save money, do this: take any belt sander with a course belt and carefully sand ACROSS the grain of both faces to "knock down" the high spots. Don't get too fancy, just spend a couple of minutes. Much of the cost of sanding Hard Maple glue-ups is just getting rid of those high spots.